The troops being landed, the Romans marked out their camp on the nearest rising grounds.

By this time, not only the parts bordering on the sea were filled with consternation and alarm, first in consequence of the fleet being seen, and afterwards from the bustle of landing, but they had extended to the cities also.

For not only multitudes of men, mixed with crowds of women and children, had filled up all the roads in every direction, but the rustics also drove away their cattle before them, so that you would say that Africa was being suddenly deserted.

In the cities, indeed, they occasioned much greater terror than they felt themselves.

At Carthage, particularly, the tumult was almost as great as if it had been captured.